NEW YORK — Larry Kudlow, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, says Republicans will hold the House this fall and the economy will be a big reason why.<p>“These are very good times and the midterms will be a report card on that,” Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, said in …

When economists tick off the reasons for our current wage problems, we usually include “slow productivity growth” on the list. Well, somebody asked me the reasonable question: Why should that matter?<p>Productivity, or output per hour, is growing slowly, but it’s still up, so why should it explain …

Unemployment dropped to its lowest level in more than 40 years in June as the rebounding economy created tens of thousands of new jobs.<p>The jobless rate fell to 4pc in the three months to June, the Office for National Statistics said, down from 4.2pc in the previous three-month period.<p>The number of …

Initial claims declined by 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 213,000<p>WASHINGTON—The number of Americans filing applications for new unemployment benefits fell last week, continuing to hover near historic lows.<p>Initial jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs across the U.S., declined by 6,000 to a seasonally …

Last month, the Trump administration reopened its effort to allow Kentucky to require low-income citizens to work in exchange for health-care coverage — part of its larger goal of imposing work requirements nationwide for all kinds of benefits, including assistance buying food. The Kentucky effort …